Talk detail

Participant	Parmar, Arvind
Institution	European Space Agency - ESAC - Villanueva de la Canada - Madrid - Spain

Session	SO5	Accepted	Yes	Order	5	Time	16:30 - 17:05
Talk	Oral abstract	Title	High-Energy Astronomy in the ESA Programme
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Abstract	ESA has played an important role in the development of high-energy astronomy since the launches of COS-B in 1975 and EXOSAT in 1983. I briefly describe what we learned from these missions before turning to ESA's current high energy missions: Integral and XMM-Newton and the world class science that they are producing. I discuss the possibilities for astronomers to obtain new observations from these missions (and with Suzaku through the ESA Announcements) and to exploit their extensive archives. Finally, I discuss the future - the European contribution to JAXA mission Astro-H, the LOFT X-ray timing mission under study as a candidate for ESA's next Medium sized mission (M3) and in the more distant future, building on the developments made for XEUS, IXO and Athena, how European high-energy astronomy could still enjoy the benefits of a large observatory class mission in the foreseeable future.